Exploring Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight 2014

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Amnesia Fortnights are a bit of a tradition at Double Fine, and it's not hard to see why. They've helped the studio transition from the hazardous world of big budget blockbuster game development to the moderately less hazardous world of crafting compact, inventive digital titles. It's a way of spreading the risk, in essence - except it's a lot more entertaining than that makes it sound.
The idea's simple. Every year or so, the studio forgets what it's currently working on and divides into small teams. Each team then has two weeks to make a prototype for an entirely new game. Punters, meanwhile, have the option to buy into the process and play the completed prototypes. They can even vote to help decide what gets made in the first place.
All that's been taken care of for Amnesia Fortnight 2014, and there are now four games available to try out. If you ask me, a couple of them are pretty interesting, too. Let's take a quick look at the whole lot.
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